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Installing the Hard Drive
Setting the Jumper
A jumper is a small plastic piece that slides over a pair of configuration
pins. (See Figure 4.) The next step in the installation process is to set the
jumper on the back of your hard drive so your system can identify the
hard drive.
The following definitions describe the jumper settings:
Master.
This setting can be used if you will be using the new hard
drive as a primary master boot drive or a secondary master additional
storage drive. The hard drive should be connected to the black (master)
connector at the end of the ATA cable.
Slave.
This setting can be used if you will be using the new hard drive
for additional storage only and is not typically used for boot devices on
Windows-based systems. The hard drive should be connected to the
gray (middle) connector on the ATA cable.
Cable Select.
This setting is an alternate method of hard drive
identification that can be used instead of the master and slave settings.
With cable select enabled, all hard drives positioned on the black
(master) connector of the ATA cable will identify as master, and all hard
drives positioned on the gray (middle) connector will identify as slave.
To properly configure cable select, all devices on the same ATA cable
must use the cable select jumper setting and be connected with a 40-pin
Ultra ATA cable like the one included. Before installing a new hard
drive, Maxtor recommends that you check to see if any device currently
Figure 4. A Jumper
